The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 10th September 2003
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Part 2
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1) Editorial
2) News
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3) Notes and Queries
4) Mailing list information
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2) News and Comment
Notes from Posted
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titles, PG FAQ as a possible Rosetta stone, sounds promising, then
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about different ways of expanding an empire, starting with
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writers, working hard on lists and contacting universities. However,
as Rose advised Alice, let's go for a moment to the opposite
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of our hearts... Everybody knows, that authors are always looking
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Gali Sirkis
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Other news items this week
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New Project Gutenberg E-Book: Nina Balatka by Anthony Trollope
(Sept 2005, E-Book #8897, nnblt10.txt/zip and nnbld10h.htm/zip)
Project Gutenberg has made available one of Anthony Trollope's most unusual
books, Nina Balatka. The book is unusual in several respects. First, it is
set in Prague rather than the British isles, and it does not deal with
Trollope's usual characters, the nobility and landed gentry. Second,
Trollope's usual witty editorial comments are absent. Third, while the book
is ostensibly the story of two lovers, Nina Balatka and Anton Trendellsohn,
they are already in love and engaged at the start of the novel. And finally,
what makes this book most unusual is starkly stated in the remarkable opening
sentence of the novel:
Nina Balatka was a maiden of Prague, born of Christian parents, and herself a
Christian--but she loved a Jew; and this is her story.
This situation raises few eyebrows at the beginning of the 21st century, but
it was a shocker in the highly anti-semitic culture of mid-19th century
England. Trollope published the novel anonymously in 1866. In his
autobiography he claims he did this to determine whether his books sold
because of his name or because of their quality. One must suspect that the
controversial subject matter led him to publish this book anonymously or at
least to select it for his experiment.
The book is short by Victorian standards. Its plot deals largely with the
obstacles to the marriage of the two lovers resulting from their religious
differences and from the schemes of Nina's relatives. It contains one of
Trollope's most remarkable women, Rebecca Loth, a Jewish girl (in love with
Anton) who befriends Nina and eventually saves her life. Another wonderful
character is Nina's Aunt Sophie, who reminds one of Mrs. Proudy, the bishop's
wife, in Trollope's Barsetshire novels. While the book is one of his
lesser-known works, it's powerful, relentless plot and well-drawn characters
make it excellent reading and deserving of greater acclaim.
Those who read many of Trollope's novels are bound to wonder whether he was
anti-semitic. Unquestionably they contain countless derogatory references to
and descriptions of Jews. But do these references reflect Trollope's own
views or the views of the realistic characters he created? In Nina Balatka it
is his Christian characters who are greedy, scheming, and conniving; his
Jewish characters for the most part act with honesty and compassion. Was this
contrast drawn on purpose?
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Trollope was anti-semitic.
Joseph Lowenstein
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In the next issue we'll return to the beaten path and explore the two
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Until then, may this week be fair, and lead you closer to your dreams!
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3) Notes and Queries, Reviews and Features
The name: NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
[For the foreigners like the author of these notes, that never
succeeded to pronounce this complicated name correctly:
Pronunciation: http://www.bartleby.com/61/wavs/11/H0091100.wav
# hô´thôrn´´ from http://www.bartleby.com/61/13/H0091300.html" The
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition. Copyright© 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.]
The brief biography:
From all available internet resources Nathaniel Hathorne (who later
became Nathaniel Hawthorn) was born exactly 28 years after signing of
the famous declaration, on 4th July, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts,
famous by its bloody (by all means) witchcraft trials
(http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SALEM.HTM) in
17th century. Interesting that Hathorne family could trace its history
as far back as 1692, when one of his predecessors John Hathorne was
actually the judge on such a trial and naturally was many times cursed
by poor convicteds. So N.H. later in his life tried to resolve this
uncomfortable fact in his 'The House of the Seven Gables' where the
marriage between successors of the cursed and cursing remitted the
unsettled punishment.
In the times covered by N.H. biography, Hathorns went to the more
romantic side of life, and the Nathaniel Hathorn-senior was a sea
captain. In the year 1808, in the warm waters of Atlantic Ocean near
Surinam, the brave captain gave up to yellow fever and died, leaving
Nathaniel junior and his sisters Elizabeth and Louise to their mother,
Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hathorne.
In the year 1820 N.H. went to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. As
it read in one of the biographies 'The curriculum focused on the
classics and on religion'. As far as I understood, though, the
curriculum of N.H. was mainly focused on the having good time with his
friends and on trying to avoid suspension due to the above. As most of
us, he finally was not suspended and succeeded to graduate after 5
years and came back to the his family, which at this time moved back to Salem.
Intermezzo about humane race:
During the years of study in Bowdoin College, he was befriended by
three gentlemen, one named Henry Longfellow, another Franklin Pierce
and the third one Horatio Bridge. Among their classmates there were
also George B. Cheerer and John S. C. Abbott. It reminded me of
another similar gang of college friends - Luis Bunuel, Frederico
Garcia Lorka and Salvador Dali. This observation is as old as the
world itself, but it still puzzles me. Seems that the humans are
packed in special boxes, so each time another box is opened and the
tireless flock of storks brings to the world bunches of people made
from same ingredients with an embedded attraction force, which brings
them together from different countries to the same colleges, hight
schools and kindergardens. Or may be it is somehow connected to some
global pattern of geothermal or solar activity?
The future biography of Hawthorn is very well described in many links
(see below), so here is the only brief description of it. However one
interesting excursion in his life is probably worth mentioning here;
in 1841, he joined the Brook Farm venture,
(http://www.bartleby.com/65/br/BrookFar.html) for an year and half,
got extremely disappointed and came back to Salem in 1842, where he
immediately married Sophia (after JOHN ERSKINE
http://www.bartleby.com/226/index.html#2 ). So the Utopian experience
started in his notesbooks as 'Here I am in a polar Paradise!',
evolved through 'It is an endless surprise to me how much work there
is to be done in the world; but, thank God, I am able to do my share
of it,--and my ability increases daily. What a great,
broad-shouldered, elephantine personage I shall become by and by!..'
to the Oh, labour is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle
with it without becoming proportionably brutalised! Is it a
praiseworthy matter that I have spent five golden months in providing
food for cows and horses? It is not so'.
Besides this and few years spent in Boston and Concord, he stayed
mainly in Salem until 1950. He wrote most of his works, met the love
of his life Sophia Peabody, married her, made several kids and
switched different jobs. Then after loosing the last one - Surveyor of the
Port in Salem arranged for him by his friend Horatio, and the death of
his mother soon after, he decided to leave the Salem which he called
"that abominable city," and never to return there. So he fullfilled
this decision and spent rest of his days outside his hometown, partly
in Liverpool, England, where he assumed position of Consul.He died in
his sleep on May 18, 1864 in Pemigewasset House in Plymouth.
From the internet:
The full bibliography:
http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/nhwrit.html
The http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/hawthor.htm is a
good page for related links. Amongst other pages (and there are as
many as 111,000 others!) http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/ is highly
recommended, for it's less formal air, absence of annoying ads and
the most comprehensive biography accompanied with various documents
and references.
N.H. possess as much as 26 entries (27069 to 27095 ) from the Columbia
World of Quotations.
Gali Sirkis
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The uncollected texts of Pauline Johnson.
E. Pauline Johnson was a poet, a gripping performer, a patriotic
Canadian, a proud half-Mohawk, a canoeing enthusiast, and a bohemian
spirit. I first became aware of her name when browsing through listings
of Project Gutenberg. Since then, I've read a great deal about this
fascinating woman and helped to include all her material published in
book form in Project Gutenberg.
Her books of stories were all collections of material she had already
published in various newspapers and magazines. For a while the idea had
been floating around in my head to put together for Project Gutenberg
articles she had written that had not been collected anywhere else.
Over the last ten years, there has been a growing scholarly interest in
Johnson; a recently published book about her includes a comprehensive
appendix listing around 250 poems, articles and stories published in a
wide variety of sources mostly from the period of 1890-1913. This was
my starting point.
But I've found good challenges along the way. From learning how to use
microfilm to looking for items that have been mis-catalogued, my
research skills have definitely been improved. Also, as I'm mostly
dealing with photocopies made from microfilm, the quality it not good
enough to use OCR, so I'm typing everything out by hand.
Part of what I find appealing in this little project is that I can take
material which is not easily accessible and has never been gathered all
together in one place before and make it freely available through PG.
Anyone who wants to see the results of what I've done so far can take a
look at http://www.victoria.tc.ca/~sly/epj/index.htm
Most of the stories there are not proofed yet, and anyone interested
in helping with that would be welcome.
Andrew Sly
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Quiz
The theme of this one is children's books:
1. Anne of Green Gables etext92/anne11.txt
2. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz etext93/wizoz10.txt
3. The Secret Garden etext94/gardn11.txt
4. A Little Princess etext94/lprss11.txt
5. Five Children and It etext97/fivit10.txt
6. The Princess and the Goblin etext96/prgob10.txt
7. The Jungle Book etext95/jnglb10.txt
8. Black Beauty etext95/bbeau10.txt
9. The Wind in the Willows etext95/wwill10.txt
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a. Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick
and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted
and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-
looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven
rather slowly through the big thoroughfares.
b. It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills
when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself,
yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of
the sleepy feeling in their tips.
c. Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main
road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders
and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its
source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place.
d. When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor
to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most
disagreeable-looking child ever seen.
e. The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-
cleaning his little home.
f. Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with
Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's
wife.
g. The house was three miles from the station, but before the dusty
hired fly had rattled along for five minutes the children began to
put their heads out of the carriage window and to say, 'Aren't we
nearly there?'
h. There was once a little princess whose father was king over a great
country full of mountains and valleys.
i. The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant
meadow with a pond of clear water in it.
No prizes as ever, except free ebooks, anyone to send in a correct set
of answers gets the Newsletter smarty-pants award.
Thanks to Tonya Allen, quizmaster!
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